Haruko Sugimura
Acting
🎂 1909-01-07
Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子 Sugimura Haruko, January 6, 1909 – April 4, 1997) was a Japanese stage and film actress, best known for her appearances in the movies of Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. In the West, her most famous role was that of Shige, the elderly couple's hairdresser daughter in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953). After the war, she was highly praised by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Shiro Toyoda, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Tadashi Imai for her natural and realistic acting. In particular, she was a regular in Yasujiro Ozu's films, appearing in nine of his films.
Cast credits(108)
Shige Kaneko
1953
Masa Taguchi
1949
Kin, the madam
1965
Oyoshi
1959
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")
1965
Madame Noge
1946
Kikue Haraguchi
1959
1963
Ine's Mother
1965
Kafu's Mother
1992
Tomoko Sakuma
1962
Narrator
1959
1942
Tami Yabe
1951
Koyabu
1950
Itsuki's stepmother
1975
Tamako Tamura
1956
Katou Shige
1961
Princess Yen-chun
1955
1950
Masao's mother
1955
Hatsu Mimura
1964
Yoko Morimoto
1995
Shigeko Takeuchi
1957
1971
1961
Ayako
1963
1962
1947
Tokie
1948
School master's wife
1962
1954
1973
Fukunaga's mother Yuki
1960
1953
1960
Marieda Matsushima
1937
1946
1970
Kono Kujirai
1951
Oroku
1961
1963
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)
1966
Moyo Sugita
1955
1955
Taromaru
1964
Osone
1950
1987
1973
Someka
1956
Taka
1948
1940
1953
1956
Kayo Tani
1960
1988
Chikako
1953
Tsuru
1965
1969
Self
1995
1968
1967
Suga Ono
1950
Self
1983
1941
Fusako Osone
1946
Setsu
1944
Matsu Murata
1951
1940
Aki
1962
1955
1962
1951
Kin
1954
1947
Oshin
1949
Otoko's Mother
1965
1951
Vaidehi
1961
Yoshie
1963
1941
Otome, the mother
1957
1952
Fusa Yoshino
1959
1948
1952
1959
Sonoe
1958
Mother
1958
1948
1974
1945
1932
1940
1951
Oshin
1949
Midwife Yae
1938
1957
1961
1962
1952
1954
1962
1941
1945
1945
Pickpocket Haruko
1960
Okuma
1960